Research Catalog

Title

Blackberries and redbones : critical articulations of black hair/body politics in Africana communities / edited by Regina E. Spellers and Kimberly R. Moffitt.

Publication

Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Spellers, Regina E.
• Moffitt, Kimberly R.

Description

xii, 472 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

The Hampton Press communication series

Uniform Title

Hampton Press communication series.

Subject

• Hairdressing of Black people > Social aspects
• Hairstyles > Social aspects
• Body image > Social aspects
• African Americans > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The big girl's chair : a rhetorical analysis of how motions for kids markets relaxers to African American girls / Shauntae Brown White -- Pretty color 'n good hair : Creole women of New Orleans and the politics of identity / Yaba Amgborale Blay -- Invisible dread : from twisted : the dreadlocks chronicles / Bert Ashe -- Social constructions of a Black woman's hair : critical reflections of a graying Sistah / Brenda J. Allen -- What it feels like for a (Black gay HIV+) boy / Chris Bell -- Dominican dance floor / Kiini Ibura Salaam -- Covering up fat upper arms / Mary L. O'Neal -- Cimmarronas, ciguapas, and senoras : hair, beauty, and national identity in the Dominican Republic / Ana-Maurine Lara -- Of wigs and weaves, locks, and fades : a personal political hair story / Neal A. Lester -- "Scatter the pigeons" : baldness and the performance of hyper-Black masculinity / E. Patrick Johnson -- From air Jordan to jumpman : the black male body as commodity / Ingrid Banks -- Cool pose on wheels : an exploration of the disabled Black male in film / Kimberly R. Moffitt -- Decoding the meaning of tattoos : cluster criticism and the case of Tupac Shakur's body art / Carlos D. Morrison, Josette R. Hutton, and Ulysses Williams, Jr. -- Blacks in white marble : interracial female subjects in mid-nineteenth-century neoclassicism / Charmaine Nelson -- Changing hair/changing race : black authenticity, colorblindness -- And hairy post-ethnic costumes in mixing Nia / Ralina L. Joseph -- "I'm real" (Black) when I wanna be : examining J. Lo's racial assets / Sika Alaine Dagbovie and Zine Magubane -- Diaspora in my hair : a poetic narrative of my experience in Europe / Nadège Tanite Clitandre -- Broken mirrors and reflections of one's self : blackness, Indianness, and hybridity / Hershini Bhana Young -- Sun kissed or sun cursed? : exploring color consciousness and Black women's tanning experiences / Regina E. Spellers -- African men in the United States : stories of race, gender, sexuality and power / Hameed S. Williams (Herukhuti) -- Weaving messages of self-esteem : empowering mothers and daughters through hair braiding / Tracey Y. Lewis-Elligan -- Divas to the dance floor please! : a neo-Black feminist readin(g) of cool pose / D. Nebi Hilliard -- Coming out natural : dreaded desire, sex roles, and cornrows / L. H. Stallings -- "I am more than a victim" : the slave woman stereotype in antebellum narratives by Black men / Ellesia A. Blaque -- Two warring ideals, one dark body : hegemony, duality, and temporality of the black body in African-American religion / Stephen C. Finley -- The snake that bit medusa : one (phenotypically) white woman's dreads / Kabira Z. Cadogan.

Call Number

Sc F 10-695

ISBN

• 9781572738805
• 1572738804
• 9781572738812 (pbk.)
• 1572738812 (pbk.)

LCCN

2010014771

OCLC

YBP 2010014771

Title

Blackberries and redbones : critical articulations of black hair/body politics in Africana communities / edited by Regina E. Spellers and Kimberly R. Moffitt.

Imprint

Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, c2010.

Series

The Hampton Press communication series

Hampton Press communication series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Spellers, Regina E.

Moffitt, Kimberly R.

Research Call Number

Sc F 10-695